This handbook of English is divided into three major sections. In the first section, "The Expression and Communication of Thought," chapter one considers the task of writing, including different kinds of essays, style, and the use of standard English. The second chapter is devoted to the process of planning and writing and examines problems of…

Author discussed the teaching of writing in American schools. (Editor/RK)

Argues that studying English can equip students to grapple with the abstractions, concepts, and vague or ambiguous utterances they encounter in other endeavors. (RB)

Concern over the inadequate writing skills of college freshmen can be traced back at least a hundred years. (JH)

Findings of the Writing Research Unit at the University of London Institute suggest that writing curricula in British secondary schools do not foster independent thinking or individual personality development. (JH)

Argues that compositions teachers need to develop an epistemology--as pragmatic as is possible--which asks how the composing process is an act of knowing. (R B)

Argues that the movie review is a useful pedagogical device in the freshman English class because it offers familiar and interesting subject matterin a brief and entertaining form. (R B)

Discusses the advantages of using talking about writing as a method for improving writing skills.

Description of an approach to teaching a third-year Russian conversation-composition course designed for college and university students from less urbanized and less cosmopolitan areas. (DH)

This textbook aims to enable pupils to master writing good English rather than teach theory of style and criticism. It is divided into four parts. Part I introduces the scholar to the construction and combination of sentences and provides a variety of practical exercises. Part II covers the structure and phraseology of sentences. Part III is an…

The complexity of the writing process makes it more useful to isolate a variety of processes or parts of processes that can be taught and learned. A narrow view of writing as product leads to a misinterpretation of the process as a definite sequence--prewriting, writing, rewriting--when in fact it is much more recursive. Proper analysis of product…

Work with 12 students in a basic writing class led to the conclusion that textual analysis alone will not provide basic writing teachers with the information they need to deal effectively with student errors; instead, contextual analysis is needed, an understanding of how students compose and what their guiding concerns and basic problems are.…

Punctuation is not necessary in a sentence if a pair of adjacent words suggests an intentional conceptual relationship. However, when the pair suggests a relationship that is not a part of the intended communication, the writer must alert the reader, so some punctuation is necessary. When members of an adjacent pair do not suggest a plausible…